Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Online reservations are now closed. We will sell a few tickets at the door - cash only.

April Night

this coming Monday, the 4th @ 8 p.m.

Music & Arts in the Studio

@ Alexey Steele Grand AtelierWe are excited to present once again the sensational soprano
Delaram Kamareh in a program of Baroque splendor, featuring gorgeous
arias by Alessandro Scarlatti, Bach and Handel - including "Let the
Bright Seraphim," which royal watchers will indelibly remember from the
wedding of Charles and Diana. A highlight of each of these works is the
virtuosic trumpet part, performed here by Jonah Levy in his CU debut,
with the impeccable Georgi Slavchev providing the continuo on piano.
Delaram is rescheduled from October, when her second CU appearance
unfortunately conflicted with her demanding and highly praised role in
the acclaimed opera "Hopscotch," in which Jonah also performed. Delaram
will reprise her stratospheric soloist role in Tan Dun's Water Passion
with the LA Master Chorale at the Ravinia Festival in Chicago in June,
while Jonah will soon be leaving LA to join the Auckland Philharmonia as
Associate Principal Trumpet...but we are delighted to have them here
with us now!

From Delaram's CU debut:

Delaram Kamareh

Making her Classical Underground debut, the Moscow-based violin virtuoso Asya Sorshneva will perform the rarely heard Schumann Fantasy
op. 131 - only slightly more familiar in its original orchestral form,
but here performed with no less than LA piano hero Steven Vanhauwaert,
who will also play some solo Schumann for us. Together they will also
play a movement from John Adams' Road Movies, which Adams describes as "an easy drive through an imagined landscape."

James Hodges returns with Pepi Pilibossian on piano to perform Carl Maria von Weber's Concertino for Clarinet, one of the earliest works for the instrument that pushes a wide virtuosic range and proceeds to a rollicking finish.

And returning after their fun four-hand piano debut in
November, USC's Hung-Tao Lin and Daniel Linder will perform the
Barcarolle, Scherzo, Theme russe, and Valse from Rachmaninov's Six four hand pieces, Op. 11.

As always - bring your spirits, food and drink for you and your friends to enjoy.

Classical Underground is happy to welcome two formidable
emissaries of the rich contemporary representational talent of San
Francisco.

Alicia Ponzio, returning to Classical Underground, is one of my
absolute favorite visual artists of our time. True sculptors are as
rare as rare gets and Alicia's works are exquisite. Her extraordinarily
manifested, real and raw Form Sense combined with authentically
expressive gesture gives the use of the human figure as visual language
its true soul. It represents everything I prize the most across all
classical visual platforms - painting, drawing or sculpture. Like in
any serious Art, her viscerally modeled material does not imitate life,
but re-creates it in her given medium. Her every new work only
reinforces my opinion, fully satisfying the sense and thought and
makes us crave to see more. A true High Art indeed. We are extremely
fortunate that Alicia is bringing to Classical Underground the debut of
two figures from her most recent work, The Echo Chamber. Enjoy and
study it!

Justin Hess, making his
first CU showcase, is following in the footsteps of the Classical
Realism School of the Florence Academy of Art in Italy, where he
studied for six years. In San Francisco he operates a popular private
teaching atelier, JHess Studio, and shows at the prestigious John Pence
Gallery. Justin brings his love and knowledge of the classicist
techniques and methods into a group of paintings depicting the
introspective moments of music making. One of the works adeptly
captures his father in the intimate setting of music reading with his
guitar. Love of Music and Art is what unites us all and makes our
vivacious friend a natural Undergrounder. Paintings, sculpture, music -
can't get much better than that!

in ART we trust!

The doors open at 7 p.m. and music starts at 8 p.m. Unassigned seating. Potluck. Directions and address are below: 405 South to the Harbor 110 South towards San Pedro; Exit Torrance
Blvd., Turn Left at the Stop sign; Turn Left on Torrance Blvd /next
light/; Continue pass Figueroa Ave, pass Carson Town Center North; 200
yards before next light /which is Main street/ make Left into a
driveway to a large parking lot and proceed to your right. Please note
that the gate next to CU will be closed for safety. The entrance
is from the parking lot. The building is on the corer of Main and
Torrance. 20795 Main St. Carson, Ca 90745

Mission Statement

We feel THAT what is missing the most in today’s world. In great debate weather ART has a future in a commercialized world of ours, we say ART is the Future.

It has to be ART, though true and pure, to make it through. Gone is the tiring age of fake, pump and pretense. Gone are the murky waters. All else stripped – ART stands in all its naked Relevance.

We believe in ART. Not as just another way of making a living, but as the very Way of Life.

We are the Underground and we stand in a subversive opposition to all and every accepted tacitly way the commercially driven society treats ART. We consider ART being a form of ultimate subversion in a greed-glorifying world and we argue a singular importance of ART outside commercialism and corrupt institutionalism within the society in crisis.

ART shall bring back what bankers had stolen from the society – the common purpose being anything else other than militant, blatant greed.

We are Classical and we stand on the shoulders of combined labor and sacrifice of cultural giants humanity managed to produce despite all its shortfalls and who were able to surpass all constraints of time and fads of the moment. The essence of their timeless creations, which is pure and true ART, stands as final testimony to in-suppressible powers of human spirit bearing extreme relevance to our time.

We stand in firm belief in fresh vitality and visceral strength of Classical, Humanistic in nature, content, philosophy and worldview for our truly modern audiences and viewers.

We are there to support and to amplify the voice of anyone across disciplines who we think is instrumental in this process.

With the Clarity of Intent we will find new ways ART can sustain itself and expand in these troubled times as Artists - some of true Heroes of Society - shall be able to enjoy the fruits of their intense, hard labor and sacrifice which is a pure Labor of Love. To that end we all work and contribute in a collaborative spirit in name of ART and Friendship. We will do everything to share ART and spread the word, as ART is the ever-flaming torch in a society facing Storm.